It’s been over nine years since a rag-tag team of 17 developers helped open Runic Games. We’ve been so lucky for the community that has supported us and made us successful. Thanks to that support, we have had the chance to meet and work with the best people in the world. Our team here at Runic has released three successful games, and over that time we have seen many changes; team members got married, kids were born, but the most important thing is that we have become a family.

I’m sorry to say that today will be Runic’s last day open. Our focus is on our family here, and helping them find a new place to call home. If you are in games and looking for some of the best talent in the industry, please email jobs@runicgames.com.

For those that love the Torchlight series, there will be some news coming. And for all our fans, our community and multiplayer services will keep running even after the studio's lights go off.

It has been an amazing experience. To my family here at Runic, I know we won’t be far from each other, and I’ll miss seeing you all every week.

Last month, the team from Gameumentary visited our office and we had a blast hanging out with them. Today they released their first documentary, which we're super excited to share with you. Check it out:

When we established the Runic Games forums, our goals were twofold: first, we want to stay connected with the people who make possible the things that we do; and second, we want to cultivate a fun and inclusive community of people who share a common interest.

Here are some thoughts we'd like to share with you about how we can maintain the health of our community:

Don't get upset with people for not knowing things. When someone asks a question that has been asked or answered before, politely direct the questioner to whatever relevant thread or information answers their question.

Don't try to be a moderator. If people make new threads that duplicate existing topics or resurrect dead threads, simply report them to us. We'll deal with merging topics or messaging people who consistently make duplicate threads.

Don't forget to have fun.

We can choose to be the community we want to be, so remember Wheaton’slaw.

Prohibited Behaviors

By no means is this a complete list; however, we felt it would be important to spell out the types of behaviors we feel are inappropriate and, therefore, prohibited on our forums.

Denigrating individuals indirectly or directly through the use of slurs or insults - for any reason, including but not limited to the following:

Sexual orientation

Race

Gender

Religious affiliation or lack thereof

National origin

Harassment and Threats:

Posting any written or linked content though forum posts or private messages for the purpose of insulting or harassing other forum members, Runic Employees or non-forum members.

Implied or actual threats of illegal actions or violence against anyone, including members of the forums, Runic employees or self.

Posting personal information about other members of the forums, Runic employees, or non-forum members without their knowledge or consent.

Obscenities:

Posting any written or linked content through posts, private messages, or your signature, which a reasonable person would consider to be obscene for reasons of excessive sexuality or violence.

Excessive profanity, vulgarity through clear or masked language or content, which a reasonable person would consider to be objectionable.

Illegal Activities:

Providing instructions or links related to software piracy, including information about how to illegally obtain software.

Posting links to malicious software.

Posting any written or linked content through posts, private messages, or your signature that references the abuse of illegal drugs.

Phishing for passwords or other account information.

Impersonating a Runic Employee:

Passing yourself off as a Runic employee for any reason, including but not limited to the distribution of false or misleading information.

Advertisements:

Posting any written or linked content through posts, private messages, or your signature for the purpose of advertising content, products, or events. This does not include posts advertising your community contributions in the appropriate context, including but not limited to mods, fan art, etc.

Contests may not be hosted on our official forums without explicit permission from us. Send a PM to BrianW for further assistance.

Spamming and Trolling:

Posting multiple meme-type images in thread responses. It’s okay to post meme images as your response, but please use the spoiler tag if this is something you plan on doing.

Creating multiple threads on the same subject in the hopes of increasing the visibility of your point of view.

Trolling is defined as creating posts for the sole purpose of causing a negative reaction on the forums. Picking fights or perpetuating fights is also considered trolling.

As stated in the previous bullet, we don't believe our forums are an appropriate place for character services to be posted. Please take it somewhere else. Thanks!

Item trading threads will be treated as spam and are, therefore, subject to deletion.

Please note that we reserve the right to amend these rules at any time without notice. Furthermore, we reserve the right to take appropriate action, including issuing warnings and bans, in cases where the rules are broken.

Updated by BrianW on June 1, 2017 at 10:58pm Pacific Time: Reformatted in Markdown.

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Runic to be featured in Gameumentary serieshttp://forums.runicgames.com/discussion/70312/runic-to-be-featured-in-gameumentary-series
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Complete: TL2 Login Maintenance (4/24 @ 7am PST)http://forums.runicgames.com/discussion/70371/complete-tl2-login-maintenance-4-24-7am-pst
Sat, 22 Apr 2017 12:10:08 +0000AnnouncementsJediFreeman70371@/discussionsMonday, April 24 at 7am PST for approximately three hours while the servers undergo scheduled maintenance. The account manager website at https://secure.runicgames.com will also be inaccessible during this time.

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Complete: TL2 Login Maintenance (4/10 @ 7am PST)http://forums.runicgames.com/discussion/70326/complete-tl2-login-maintenance-4-10-7am-pst
Fri, 07 Apr 2017 20:09:09 +0000AnnouncementsBrianW70326@/discussionsMonday, April 10 at 7am PST for approximately one hour while the servers undergo scheduled maintenance. The account manager website at https://secure.runicgames.com will also be inaccessible during this time.

Please feel free to submit your questions for the team by replying to this thread or tweeting @RunicGames with the hashtag #HobQA.

See you there! :-)

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Torchlight Mobile Announced!http://forums.runicgames.com/discussion/67047/torchlight-mobile-announced
Fri, 12 Jun 2015 15:23:31 +0000AnnouncementsBrianW67047@/discussionshttp://www.torchlightmobile.com for more info! ]]>
PAX West Last Callhttp://forums.runicgames.com/discussion/68421/pax-west-last-call
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Thanks for entering our PAX West badge giveaway!http://forums.runicgames.com/discussion/68403/thanks-for-entering-our-pax-west-badge-giveaway
Wed, 24 Aug 2016 16:47:28 +0000AnnouncementsBrianW68403@/discussions
We are giving away badges to PAX West, so make sure to visit our blog for instructions on how to enter the contest!